Republican News · Thursday 29 January 1998

[An Phoblacht]

Sectarian slaughter

Sunday: Fergal McCusker shot dead, Maghera

Monday: Larry Brennan, shot dead, Belfast

Wednesday: Ben Hughes shot dead, Belfast; John McFarland, gunshot wounds, Belfast; Unnamed Protestant, gunshot wounds, Belfast

Thursday: Chris McMahon, gunshot wounds, Belfast

Friday: Liam Conway, shot dead, Belfast

Saturday: John McColgan, shot dead, Belfast

Sunday: Unnamed Catholic, gunshot wounds, Lurgan; bomb attack, Catholic family, Carrickfergus.

Tuesday: Taxi depot, murder bid, Belfast

Fourteen community groups from Belfast joined forces on Wednesday afternoon to mount a picket at Leinster House in protest at the failure of successive Dublin governments to highlight the collusion between the RUC and other elements of the British military machine with loyalist murder gangs.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern met with representatives of the groups to hear their concerns and requests for assistance in exposing what is happening on the ground in nationalist areas. Speaking at a press conference before the picket, Chairperson of the group Liz Groves said, ``In the face of ongoing loyalist violence, which is operating in the full knowledge of the RUC, we call on the Irish nation through its government to defend the rights and lives of Irish people living in the north of Ireland.''

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